UNESCO strives to create communities of practice that use information and communication technologies (ICT) to exchange knowledge and debate issues across its domains of action. Established UNESCO networks and partnerships are the core of these new virtual communities currently being forged through the UNESCO portal. Access to these partners and networks across are grouped into six groups or families of communities :

[Member States]
[United Nations System]
[Intergovernmental Organizations]
[Non-Governmental Organizations]
[Private Sector networks]
[Media participants]

Related online information : [Member States], [How do States join UNESCO?], [Directory of National Commissions for UNESCO] [National Commissions for UNESCO Database] See also : [Sector for External Relations and Cooperation (ERC)], [Bureau of Field Coordination (BFC)], [Italian National Commission for UNESCO ]

See also : Involving National Commissions in UN Common Country Programming (1/10/2009)